Towards task-based personal information management evaluations

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 23-30

  Elsweiler, David ^a   Ruthven, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Personal information management; User evaluation

Indexed keywords

PERSONAL COLLECTIONS; PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; REFIND INFORMATION; USER EVALUATION;

ELECTRONIC MAIL; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 36448993627     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1277741.1277748     Document Type: Article

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